Blogging obscure, hard to find solutions that I had to tackle. Goal is to help at least 1 person solve a problem they couldn't otherwise.

Friday, September 18, 2009

GemFire RubyGem (activesupport-gemfirecache)

So i finally got around to building my first Ruby gem, activesupport-gemfirecache. Its with a very cool distributed memory fabric called Gemfire. Its a java based distributed cache application, which has a fairly easy to use Java API. Since we are using Jruby/Rails I thought it would be an interesting project to try to build a custom Rails Cache store that can be used natively from within Rails. This is one of the real nice things about JRuby, is being able to call native Java libraries.